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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
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